Frank A. Leach
Frank A. Leach | |
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Director of the United States Mint | |
In office September 1907 – August 1909 | |
President | Theodore Roosevelt William Howard Taft |
Preceded by | George E. Roberts |
Succeeded by | Abram Andrew |
Frank Aleamon Leach (August 19, 1846 – June 19, 1929) was a United States newspaperman who was Director of the United States Mint from 1906 to 1909. In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, the heroic efforts by Frank A. Leach and his men preserved the old San Francisco Mint building and the bullion that then backed the nation's currency.
Biography
Frank A. Leach was born in
In 1867, at age 20, Leach became a
Leach retired from journalism in 1897 to become Superintendent of the San Francisco Mint.[1] In 1907, on the recommendation of United States Secretary of the Treasury George B. Cortelyou, President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt named Leach Director of the United States Mint and Leach held that office from September 1907 until August 1909.[3]
Frank Leach died on June 19, 1929. He is buried at Mountain View Cemetery (Oakland, California), plot 14B.
Works
- Recollections of a Newspaperman. San Francisco, CA: S. Levinson. 1917. p. 416. OCLC 5168858.
Frank Aleamon Leach.
- Wild Life in California: Some of Its Birds, Animals and Flowers. Oakland, CA: Tribune Publishing Company. 1920. p. 109. OCLC 12257730.
References
- ^ a b c d e Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1908). Who's who in America. A. N. Marquis.
- ^ a b "Search results for California as I Saw It: First-Person Narratives of California's Early Years, 1849 to 1900, Recollections of a Newspaperman, Available Online". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2022-12-31.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-12-31.